The former partner of serial killer Levi Bellfield spoke out last week after he admitted killing 13-year-old Milly Dowler for the first time.

Jo Collings, who lives in Penn, told the Sunday Mirror that she fears the former bouncer’s murder tally is likely to be in “double figures”, while “hundreds” may have been raped.

Bellfield was convicted of the murder of Milly in 2011, and police confirmed last week that he had recently admitted the crime while in prison.

He was already serving a jail sentence for the murders of Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange.

Ms Collings, who had two children with Bellfield, spoke in the national press saying she wishes she could have stopped him years ago.

She said: “I will have to live with the guilt that Milly might still be here today for the rest of my life.

"Every single day I think if I had opened my mouth maybe her, Marsha McDonnell or Amelie Delagrange wouldn’t have been killed and hundreds wouldn’t have been raped.”

Ms Collings and Bellfield split in 1997 after three years, but she claimed that he terrorised and stalked her for almost a decade.

Bucks Free Press:

Bellfield pictured during a police interview.

Speaking about his new admission that he killed Milly, she said: “I felt sick to my stomach when I heard he had confessed. I hadn’t any warning from the police.

“But this isn’t about helping out the victims in any way. This is just about him."

Ms Collings declined to comment further on the report when contacted by the Bucks Free Press.